weekend and she almost won. she almost won the "arab's got talent" competition singing arabic songs and, yes, speaking no arabic whatsoever. it's true and amazing. it's true and amazing. and humbling in about 9,000 different ways. that does it for us tonight. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." have a great night. today, republicans were called heartless about unemployment benefits and clueless when talking to women voters, again. >> the steadily improving economy is actually on the horizon. >> a budget deal by the end of the week. >> of course there's a caveat. >> but at what cost for the unemployed. >> congress has just five days left. >> federal benefits expire at the end of the year, to vote to extend the unemployment benefit program. >> i do support unemployment benefits for the 26 weeks they're paid for. >> the republican argument from senator rand paul. >> if you extend it beyond that, you do a disservice to these workers. >> my mouth dropped open when i

heard that. >> part of this perpetual unemployed -- >> it's the unemployment insurance that creates the, quote, dependency? >> it actually does a disservice to the people you're trying to help. >> that is a ridiculous argument. >> part of this perpetual unemployed. >> perpetual unemployment, and we can't afford it. >> it's about $25 billion that no one was talking about. >> two arguments, really, that we've heard from republicans. >> the whole 47% thing clearly has note made a dent. >> will congress act to help over 1 million americans? >> these are people we know and they include 20,000 veterans. >> while it seems good, it actually does a disservice to the people you're trying to help. >> he just wins my scrooge award of the year. >> the whole 47% thing clearly has not made a dent. >> clueless, heartless, and gutless. that is the headline of a "national journal" piece today on the modern republican party, which analyzed the congressional republicans' positions, such as letting unemployment insurance

for 1.3 million americans expire three days after christmas and concluded the most charitable thing you can say about the republican party is that it has an image problem. president obama used his weekly address on saturday to challenge the republican opposition. >> extending unemployment insurance isn't just the right thing to do for our families, it's the smart thing to do for our economy. and it shouldn't be a partisan issue. for decades, congress has voted to offer relief to job seekers, including when the unemployment rate was lower than it is today. but now that economic lifeline is in jeopardy. all because republicans in this congress, which is on track to be the most unproductive in history, have so far refused to extend it. >> then, on sunday, fox news sunday' chris wallace asked rand paul about unemployment. >> do you, personally, do you support extending unemployment benefits or would you let 1.3 million americans lose those

benefits before the end of the year? >> i do support unemployment benefits for the 26 weeks that they're paid for. if you extend it beyond that, you do a disservice to these workers. there was a study that came out a few months ago, and it said, if you have a worker that's been unemployed for four weeks and on unemployment insurance and one that's on 99 weeks, which would you hire? every employer, nearly 100%, said they will always hire the person who's been out of work four weeks. when you allow people to be on unemployment insurance for 99 weeks, you're causing them to become part of this perpetual unemployed group in our economy. >> joining me now, former labor secretary, robert reich, a professor at the university of california at berkeley. his documentary, "inequality for all" is in theaters now and available on dvd next month. and richard wolffe, executive editor of msnbc.com. robert reich, we asked rand paul's office exactly what study was he referring the to there,

that taught him everything he thinks he needs to know about unemployment insurance and they do not know. they have not revealed to us what study he was referring to. what would you like rand paul to know about unemployment insurance? >> well, it's very simple, lawrence. we now have 4 million people who have been unemployed for more than six months. this is unprecedented in this country. it comes from the great recession. it is the residue of the great recession. if rand paul thinks they are doing it voluntarily. if rand paul thinks that all they need is to have less money, less help, and they will get jobs, he doesn't understand the labor market at all. there are three people looking for work today for every job opening that exists, and undoubtedly, people have been out for a long time, have a harder row to hoe, but that doesn't mean they want to be where they are. and this is one of the conservative things. that somehow they have in their minds, these conservatives, these radical republicans, the idea that poor people, unemployed people need less money in order to have the right

incentives, while rich people need more money in order to have the right incentives. >> richard wolffe, this is -- this highlights to me the laziness of libertarianism. libertarianism, i know they like to think of themselves as being in a rigorous intellectual structure, in which they have to think their way through. but, in fact, this is where libertarianism gives libertarians an easy answer that they never, ever have to think about. a government handout, and everything is a government handout, in their view, makes people lazy and makes them then depend on nothing but government handouts. and they will cite mythical, nonexistent studies if they have to. >> and they have been for centuries now. victorians had this argument. we went through it in the 20th century. it's a bit rich, by the way, for people in pretty cushy government jobs to be lecturing other people about getting government benefits. you know, they need an incentive to actually refresh their thinking about the long-term unemployed.

this is a drag on the economy, but it's not out of choice. the long-term unemployed want to be self-reliant. these benefits -- these aren't european-style benefits, where they're permanent. they're without end. and even there people say, i would much rather have a job than permanent benefits. it's just unclear what kind of labor market rand paul is really talking about if he thinks 26 weeks is enough to get a new job in this economy. >> and the only way you can qualify for unemployment benefits is by working. so this notion that it promotes dependency -- and there's basic elements of economics that the rand pauls do not understand about this. let's listen to what president obama said about how unemployment insurance works in this economy. >> unemployment insurance is one of the most effective ways there is to boost our economy. when people have money to spend on basic necessities, that means more customers for our businesses and ultimately more jobs. just this week, the nonpartisan congressional budget office predicted that allowing benefits to expire will be a drag on our

economic growth next year. a report by the department of labor, and my council of economic advisers, estimated that it could cost businesses 240,000 jobs. >> robert reich, rand paul knows nothing of that. >> no, rand paul, unfortunately, is not alone in knowing nothing of that. the entire republican party is saying no, not only to extended unemployment benefits, but also to food stamps. they want to cut food stamps. they don't want to have the minimum wage raised for inflation. i mean, if the minimum wage today were what it was in 1968, adjusted for inflation, it would be $10.40. the republicans simply don't believe that people who don't have jobs or are poor need some help. and they don't understand that by giving them some help, we are actually helping the entire economy, because we're putting more money in their pockets that they then turn around and buy things, and that means there are more jobs out there. >> the energy of the economy is dependent on the spending

capacity within that economy. paul krugman tried to drive home this lesson in his column, saying, unemployment in today's american economy is limited by demand, not supply. businesses aren't failing to hire because they can't find willing workers. they're failing to hire because they can't find enough customers and slashing unemployment benefits, which would have the side effect of reducing incomes, and hence, consumer spending would just make the situation worse. and richard wolffe, i have not heard a conservative or a libertarian in congress address that economic principle. >> you know, this is a classic demand problem in this economy right now. it is getting better. we saw the unemployment numbers tick down and the monthly payroll numbers tick up. but, you know, it's astonishing when you look at the people who are responsible for this financial collapse, who have profited enormously from the rebound in the economy. the republican argument is that they need more money in their pockets.

they don't go out and spend that money. they go out and put it into tax shelters and they go out and invest it, which is great. but on a dollar-for-dollar basis, the money that goes into food stamps and unemployment benefits goes right back in the economy, because people who have them need to spend them. >> and there used to be a bipartisan understanding about these kinds of things, but that's disappeared. let's listen to what john boehner said about this. >> if the president has a plan for extending unemployment benefits, i'd sure entertain taking a look at it. but i would argue the president's real focus ought to be creating a better environment for our economy and creating more jobs for the american people. that's where the focus is. not more government programs. >> robert reich, that is actually the most reasonable thing i can find that a republican has said about this. that's as good as it gets. >> but john boehner and much of the rest of the republican party really do believe that somehow the job creators in this country are the rich, the people who run corporations, the people who run

wall street. but the fact of the matter is that the job creators in america are the middle class and the poor. people who, because they buy things, create incentives for businesses to create more jobs. if the middle class and poor don't have enough purchasing power, if, actually, inequality is out of control, as it is right now, if we are cutting benefits for the poor, food stamps, medicaid, if governors say they won't even extend medicaid. if we are actually saying no to extended unemployment benefits, what we are doing, in effect, is making the entire economy less effective. we are making sure that businesses will not create new jobs, because there's not enough demand out there for the goods and services that businesses could create. we are creating at a vicious cycle in this economy and we are perpetuating a terrible, slow recovery that is actually just a hair's breadth away from another recession. that's what they are buying. maybe that's what they want.

>> richard wolffe, do you see any last-minute possibilities of something working its way through congress on this? >> not in this particular budget, but i do think for 2016, there's going to be a republican candidate out there who speaks of a kinder, gentler economy. we're at that point of having the 1980s debate all over again. >> robert reich, what version of this do you think is conceivable? >> well, here's my worry, lawrence. democrats have given some signals that they are willing to sign off on certain agreements without unemployment benefits to 1.3 million people. all the democrats have to do is even suggest that, and that's enough ammunition for conservative republicans and tea partyers to say, well, we will be able to get a budget agreement and get back on track. we don't need to worry about the unemployed. the democrats need to be very, very clear this week. they are not going to send any

budget agreement that sacrifices some of the most dependent and needy people in our economy that did nothing wrong but lose their jobs. >> robert reich and richard wolffe, thank you both for joining us tonight. we showed you this police video gone crazy. luckily, no one was injured. including the children. the own police department's rule on the use of deadly force. on friday, the new mexico state police confirmed that by firing that police officer. that's coming up. ♪

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after a stop to refuel, the president and the first lady are continuing their flight to south africa to continue the memorial service for nelson mandela. president obama will be the first head of state to speak at the memorial tuesday. former president george w. bush and former first lady laura bush and former secretary of state, hillary clinton, are also traveling on air force one with the obamas. former presidents bill clinton and jimmy carter will also attend the event, but are traveling separately. president george h.w. bush could not attend. you can see the memorial service live on msnbc starting at 4:00 a.m. eastern time. up next, republicans are still having some problems, some big problems talking to women voters. in the nation, sometimes bad things happen.

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you know, you look around the congress, there are a lot more females in the democrat caucus than there are in the republican caucus. and, you know, some of our members just aren't as sensitive as they ought to be. >> yeah. they aren't. and some of republican senate candidates have caused a lot of trouble for the party. >> where if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. >> even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that god intended to happen. >> and then yesterday, a

republican senate candidate in iowa said this. >> you have to connect with women on an emotional level and with a wife of 25 years and an 18-year-old daughter, i've had a lot of coaching on that. >> joining me now is nia-malika henderson, and jess mcintosh is with emily's list. >> all you need is that wife and daughter, and as a republican candidate, you'll know exactly how to appeal to women voters. >> women like butterflies and the color pink and princesses. jess and i were talking before, it's here we go again. the republicans obviously have been grappling with this issue for a while. i mean, going back to john mccain nominating sarah palin, thinking that would make republicans more palatable to women didn't work for them then. and here we are, you do have boehner acknowledging the problem, but then again, you have these folks out there who just didn't get the memo that

they need to, to really talk to women about policy and talk to women about the issues that women care about, like the economy, for instance. so we'll see how this plays out in 2014, but, obviously, everyone is mindful of it and republicans are trying to do some sort of women's boot camp, and it looks like that guy probably needs to go. >> jess mcintosh, this most recent gaffe would not be such a big deal, i don't think, unless it was coming as part of this kind of endless accumulation of much worse stuff that has been said by republican candidates. >> the file just keeps getting bigger on this one. it was four days ago that they talked about training their candidates to not insult women. it took four days for somebody to come out and say that women needed to be appealed to an emotional level. the next time they do this, i want them to hand out a book to their members that says, "women, they're just like people" and then maybe they'll know how to

talk to us. it's really not that hard. nia's right, it's about substance and policy. and maybe that's why they're flailing around, because there's really not that much there to sell women. >> right, they can't get just the basic language of it right, but the bigger problem, it seems, is how they deal with the actual issues. let's listen to debbie wasserman schultz said about this. >> this is just so funny. i mean, really, the republicans still think that they have to -- that it's about their words, when it comes to whether or not women voters are going to support their candidates. it's about their policies. the republicans have not been able to get the overwhelming support of women and democrats have, because we're right on the issues that matter to women, and they are wrong. that's the kind of education that they need to give to their candidates. >> nia-malika, the issues seem to present as big a challenge, i think a bigger challenge, than their language. >> that's right, perception is one problem, although policy is another issue.

if you look at the issues like, for instance, raising the minimum wage, women overwhelmingly favor raising the minimum wage. and you'll see in some of these states across the country in 2014, put that issue on the ballot in states like south dakota and states like illinois, in hopes of drawing women and that sort of obama coalition to the polls. same with same-sex marriage. women tend to favor that in the same way that most democratic candidates do. so it just so happens, and democrats have obviously reaped the benefits of that, that they are more in sync with the majority of where women are on these issues. >> there is something strange in the republican party, something really fundamental that is identified in this poll, recently poll in october saying, asking the question -- saying, it would be a good thing if more women were elected to congress. 60% of democrats agree that it would be a good thing if more women were elected to congress,

and only 23% of republicans agree that it would be a good thing if more women were elected to congress. and by the way, the women republicans are about the same as the overall number. i think with women republicans, only about 25% of them, let's see, republican women, 24%, only 24% of republican women think it would be a good idea if more women were elected to congress. jess mcintosh, there is some very interesting social psychology there. >> there is. and i'm a little hesitant to delve into it. >> i've gone as far as i can go. i don't know what the words are to describe what's going on there. >> deep-seeded and frightening. i think there's something in the republican party today that doesn't respect women, and that's -- you see that in their policies, you see that in their

not wanting to reauthorize the violence against women act, their inability to recognize equal pay as an issue, their desire to take life-saving health care away from women. you also see it in this constant stream of gaffes. i mean, the gentleman in iowa who started us off today, mr. jacobs, said he had a wife and a daughter, and that was how he learned to interact with women. women voters don't want their candidates to talk to them like husbands and fathers. that's really demeaning and weird. women want to be talked to about the issues that matter to them and since republicans don't seem able to do that, they're stuck floundering. i think the republican party hasn't made many gains in electing women to their own caucus, for exactly this reason. at emily's list, we work to elect pro-choice democratic women and we have made huge gains in the last 20 years. when you see the same graph on the republican side, it's really not very much. we're not going to get to

parody. we're not going to get to 50%, unless the republican party starts figuring out, not just how to appeal to women voters, but how to respect women in general. that's how we're going to see more women republicans, which is probably going to be a moderating influence on the party, that will be great for the country. >> nia-malika, women are a small minority in both the house and the senate, a small minority. do you want to take a stab at explaining to the world why only 25% of women republicans think that women should be anything more than a small minority in the house and in the senate? >> yeah, you know, i don't know pip mean, you've got this situation now where you have the year of the woman in many ways, in the senate, and the house, so i don't know. i don't know if these are just, you know, those sort of traditional conservative values that some republican women still sort of aspire to and espouse. it could, certainly, be that, but then you do have some women in the party who are looking at this, there's a new consulting

firm, bernie and glass, where they're trying to talk to a republican candidate as well. so i think we'll see some change going forward. >> nia-malika henderson and jess mcintosh, thank you both for joining me tonight. >> thanks. >> thank you. coming up, i told you as soon as i saw this video that the police officer in new mexico who fired his gun at that van with a mother and her children in it was violating that police department's rule on deadly force and i had not even read their rule yet, because they wouldn't give it to us. when we got the rule, we saw it was a very clear violation. i knew it would be, and the new mexico state police now agree. they have fired that police officer. that's our next story. [ gunfire ] ♪ [ male announcer ] how could a luminous protein in jellyfish, impact life expectancy in the u.s.,

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in the spotlight tonight, a cop in new mexico fires his gun and now east fired. in tonight's episode of "bad cop, worse cop," we have two new mexico state police officers. >> oriana ferrell and a state police officer are arguing over a ticket. >> you will see officer devas viciously endanger the kids in the car, and you will see him do that out of nothing but rage. >> when that officer starts bashing in the window of that car, he went from being a professional law enforcement officer dealing with a frustrating situation to an angry man with a gun.

>> ferrell starts to drive off while another officer fires at the minivan full of kids as young as 6. >> what you just saw was a completely unconstitutional use of deadly force. >> when somebody's leaving the scene of an incident, trying to fire at the vehicle makes no sense at all. the officer said he was firing at the tires. perhaps even a marine sniper would have difficulty hitting tires. >> her moeks and her errors don't excuse the officer's callous disregard for the ages of the kids in the back of that car. >> police work is a lot of ambiguity. this is not ambiguous. >> on friday, the officer who fired his gun was fired. here's another look at the action that proceeded that shooting. >> this traffic stop is going to go one of two ways, okay? you can cooperate -- >> i am cooperating. >> i'm giving you a lawful order to turn the vehicle off, okay, while i go back and tell dispatch, okay? if you don't want to pick, if you don't want to choose -- your other option is telling me you

want to go see a judge on the matter right this second, okay? and i can arrange for that, okay? >> get out of the vehicle right now! get out right now! get out of the vehicle right now! [ screaming ] get out of the vehicle right now! get out of the vehicle, ma'am! >> i'm not doing this -- >> get out of the vehicle right now! [ screaming and crying ] >> get out of the vehicle! come back here and talk about it! close the door! close the door! listen to me -- step out of the vehicle right now! >> officer! >> tell your son to get back in the vehicle. >> get in the car! >> get back in the vehicle right now.

>> >> i'm trying to make this -- sir, i'm trying to just -- >> step out of the vehicle right now. >> i'll sign whatever you're asking me to sign, sir. i will sign it. i wasn't trying to create no stink. i was trying to be honest -- >> okay, you cannot -- i stopped you, i'm trying to tell you what to do, and you take off. you understand what you just did? >> that's not what happened. i wasn't trying to take off. i said stop right there and i'll be right back, and you took off, okay? go ahead and turn around, just turn around for me, okay? turn around for me. there are going to be two other officers here in just a second. turn around and face your vehicle. ma'am, listen to me. >> please don't -- [ screaming and crying ] >> get back! get back! >> sir, sir! please! [ screaming ]

>> no! no! no! >> get on the ground! get on the ground! get on the ground! get on the ground! [ screaming ] >> get on the ground! get out! get out right now! get out! >> get them out. >> open the [ bleep ] door! >> open the door! open the door! [ screaming ] [ gunshots ] >> joining me now, msnbc analyst james cavanaugh, who is a retired atf agent and a former hostage negotiator for the atf. also joining us, msnbc contributor, goldie taylor. james cavanaugh, you know, i said as soon as i saw that, that that was a violation of the

deadly force rule, and i didn't have to see new mexico's deadly force rule, which they were withholding from me for a couple of days, because the supreme court in 1985 ruled that shooting illegal. that they made it finally illegal in all 50 states, police deadly force rules had to comply with the supreme court finding that you do not have any legal authority to shoot at fleeing suspects. and that is what we were watching there, wasn't it? >> and every police commander in the country would agree with you, lawrence. it's a bad shoot, and just from looking at the video. he should have never even broke leather, that officer. there was no reason to break leather in this situation. >> goldie, it seems to me that that police officer and the others who joined him had no comprehension of what it might feel like to be a mother from out of state in that situation, with her children, not familiar

with local laws, not completely understanding what she was up against, and what her options were, and it seems to me, you can see her trying to figure out what is the right thing to do by the law and what is the right thing to do by her children. >> you can certainly see her grappling with it. and as a mother of children myself, grown children now, i'm not certain that i would have allowed that police officer to separate me from my children, place me under arrest without my children having been under the supervision of at least another officer or another official. i'm not certain that i personally would have allowed that to happen. and maybe that escalated thing, but certainly where it went, it did not have to go. >> goldie, talk about -- there's a history here. there is a cultural history, there's an american history here to the experience of being pulled over by police, while black. >> absolutely. >> and what the different dynamics feel like in those cases. >> you know, this particular route has a very large and

looming history. this was the road that many people took out of the south driving to california, driving to, you know, washington state, when they were leaving the old slave south in terms of the new african-american migration that happened from around 1905 from around 1950. this was a -- this road has a lot of history. and part of that history is how you conduct yourself if you are stopped by an officer. keep your hands on the wheel. say, yes, sir, no, sir. if you're a minor, you say, will you call my parents. there's a way people of color conduct themselves when they meet law enforcement, because they want to make it home safely and on time. and you know, not come of any harm. unfortunately, you know, this mom, you know, had some other issues to have to grapple, and having six children, not all of which she could control at one time, getting in and outside of that car, she had a lot of snap decisions to make, and i'm not sure i would have made any one of them differently. >> james cavanaugh, there's a

lot of good cops out there, great cops who would have known how to handle this situation with this mother under these circumstances, and they know they have plenty of discretion about how to handle this situation, and the great cops also known what's at stake here. and what's at stake is a vehicle that was going 71 miles an hour in a 55-mile-an-hour zone. that was the legal issue that was at stake. nothing bigger than that, and that wasn't worth breaking any windows or firing any shots. >> exactly right, lawrence. and the officer verbally is escalating this thing from the beginning. he's talking down to miss ferrell. he's sort of giving her options and do this or do that. and he just constantly escalates it verbally. then he tries to arrest her, instead of waiting for the two backup officers to come, which he says they're just minutes away. he should have waited and de-escalated the situation and defused it a little more. so he wouldn't have to get in a

wrestling match with her. and she was confused and she didn't handle it very well. but there's some points in her favor too, you know. the officer says turn off the car, and then he walks away, and you know, she drives away. and then she stops immediately when he pulls her over again, but he starts screaming at her. officers should scream at no one. and the citizens want capable, tolerant, silent officers who enforce the law. there's no reason to scream at people, there's never a reason to scream at people. lose your cool, you need to be coolheaded, diffuse the situation. this could have been resolved easily. >> and goldie, quickly, before we go, the proof is in her ultimate conduct. she was pulled over when she was asked. then she made the mistake under pressure of her decision making to drive away again. but then she pulls over again. this is clearly -- this is not someone who's trying to escape to california and then, you know, what she ends up doing is driving what she -- as i see it, into an area where she thinks is safe and her children will be

safe and pulls over, literally at a hotel. and surrenders, basically, you know, is in the process of surrendering here. she wasn't trying to escape. >> absolutely, you know, clearly, she followed the handbook. it's not like she drove into some cave and tried to hide this car and these children. she drove into a well-lit place where there would be witnesses. there were no witnesses on that road. she didn't know what was on the other side of that badge. she did know there was one officer trying to bash her window in and another officer shooting at the back window of her car. she didn't know if he was shooting at the tires. but at a car driving that speed, shooting at the tires is deadly force and that car was not coming toward him, it was moving away. there were many, many more ways that this officer could have handled that situation. you know, i think this is up for a citizen's review board. i'm not sure that i trust a citizen's review board in this situation, because it's drawn from that community. will it have the economic, gender, or racial diversity it needs.

>> and shooting at the tires is against the deadly force rule also. james cavanaugh and goldie taylor, thank you very much for joining me tonight. >> thanks, lawrence. >> thank you. coming up, a teacher who taught at a catholic school for 12 years has now been fired are after he applied for a license to legally marry his partner in a state where it is legal. and that teacher and his partner will join me in a "last word" exclusive coming up. and in the "rewrite" tonight, you will meet a high school girl in africa who is bravely trying to rewrite the possibilities of her future. [ female announcer ] think all pads are the same? don't.

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desks, the partnership i created with unicef to provide desks in classrooms in africa where the students have never seen desks. since i last updated you on the k.i.n.d. fund on thursday night, you have contributed another $109,656, bringing our total to $5,851,920 and that does not include what happened in birmingham, alabama, this weekend. it was a miracle. i spent the weekend in birmingham, where a small group of cub scouts led the congregation of the sixth avenue baptist church to make the single largest contribution to the k.i.n.d. fund that any organization has ever made. we will have a complete report wednesday night on our trip to birmingham and the inspiring work of those amazing cub scouts

at sixth avenue baptist church. remember, if you make a contribution to the k.i.n.d. fund as a christmas gift, unicef will send a gift notice to the recipient of your gift, telling your mother or your grandmother or a friend that you have donated a desk in his or her name. you can also do that with the tuition component of the k.i.n.d. fund. we've expanded the k.i.n.d. fund to include a tuition program for girls, because girls' education faces unique challenges in move mulawi. and in a country where more than 40% of the population lives on less than $1 a day, yes, you heard this right, parents have to make some hard choices about which of their children get to go to high school if they have to pay for it. and going to high school can be

much more expensive in rural areas where the poorest families live, because the students have to travel very long distances to school each day or they have to pay room and board to live at or near the school. under those circumstances, how hard is it for a girl to get an education in mulawi? well, in the rural areas, only 9%, 9% of the high school students are girls. the full cost of sending a girl to high school in mulawi is $177 a year, including room and board. here is the girl's dormitory at the school near mozambique border. it is unheated and it can be cold at night. i visited this school a few months ago. there is no electricity at the school, so homework is done by flashlight.

this is the kitchen where the girls take. it takes incredible strength and determination for them to get through high school in mulawi. but these girls don't say much about how difficult it is. instead, they just talk about how lucky they feel to be doing it. >> she is 17 years old and she told me that she dropped out of school when she got pregnant and she was able to go back to school only because her tuition is now paid for as is her school yump, her notebooks, her pens, and her school bag. she doesn't need room and board at the school, because she rides her bicycle to and from school every day so she can spend every night with her baby. that's a seven-mile ride each way. she told me that she believes

that if she does not go to school, then my children will also not go to school. she told me that through an interpreter. and i asked her what she wants to do when she finishes school. [ speaking foreign language ] she just said, "i would like to become a nurse." you can help her to become a nurse by donating any amount you can afford to the k.i.n.d. fund. if you contribute $17 and designate it for girls' tuition, and let's say nine other people contribute $17, that will put one girl through one year of high school. if you contribute $10 towards the cost of one of these desks and six other people contribute $10, then you will have changed the world for the two or three kids that can sit at this desk when it's delivered to their classroom. now, due to inflation and

skyrocketing fuel costs in mulawi over the past few years, the cost of this desk has risen to $65, but that money is going to the company that is making these desks. and those workers now have jobs that allow them to feed their families and send their children to school. such is the virtuous cycle of the money contributed to the k.i.n.d. fund. it is a jobs program, it is a desks program, it is a tuition program. and if we're lucky, it is a nurses education program. the moment common ambition of the high school girls that i've met in mulawi is to become a nurse. every morning she rides her bicycle over seven dirt miles of rough road, she proves she has the determination to finish her education.

the only thing in doubt is she will have the resources to do that. and with your help, the k.i.n.d. fund can provide her with everything she needs to finish school and realize her dream of becoming a nurse. hi honey, did you get the toaster cozy?

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regretly, we informed mr. griffin that we have no choice but to terminate his contract effective immediately. effective immediately, joining us is michael griffin and his soon-to-be husband. this was not a surprise, right? >> that's correct. we've actually been dating for as -- well, a couple -- we started dating before i started working there 12 years ago, that summer, but we've been together since then. >> and the school had no problem with that? >> no. no, he had been to school events, school functions. in april, we sat at the table with the principal at a fund-raiser, an auction, and i think there were eight of us at the table, and vincent and i were two of them along with the principal and his wife. >> vincent, did you guys talk about how your relationship might at some way be in violation of the contract?

with the school? >> well, we did the best that we can. we're just living our lives. and we try to be the best people that we can be. >> michael, what did you think -- when you found yourself in this conversation about the marriage license and your intention to get married, did you think, this is going to do it? this is going to get me fired? >> at that meeting or when i applied for the -- >> when you applied for the -- >> no, when i applied for the license, i didn't think anything. i had e-mailed the principal, he said okay. >> and becoming legal in new jersey, it was very highly publicized. it's not like this is some surprise that you might want to do this, it seems to me? >> no. and we had a civil union in 2008. >> which the school knew about? >> yes, yes, so? and theoretically, that was all the same rights and responsibilities as marriage. so, again, i was blindsided by this and i really didn't see it

coming. >> well, i'm sorry.